Meet Our Leadership Team
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Mr. Bikash Bihari Biswal
Director-Civil Services Training Programs
Mr. Biswal is a retired officer from Odisha Administrative Services (OAS), who worked as Additional Secretary, Government of Odisha. He has vast experience in grassroots administration and was a member of think tanks in Odisha State Secretariat. He has contributed a lot to the Odisha government in developing the administrative structure, policies and in taking reformative steps. He has received high appreciations in various forums.
At present as Director of Civil Services Training Programs he is heading various activities in Vikash Educational Charitable Trust. He takes overall responsibility of preparing youth for Civil Services and mentors each one of them personally. Apart from this, he is involved in many other social works and is associated with the administration of many religious places. He is humble, friendly, enthusiastic, far-sighted and strategic in intervention approaches. He loves to watch cricket, make new friendship, visiting new places and reading etc.
Er. Dinabandhu Nanda
Director-Scholarship Program
Engineer Nanda is the former Superintending Engineer of Water Resources Department, Government of Odisha. After completing B.Sc (Civil Engineering) from Utkal University College of Engineering, Burla in 1964, he joined in the irrigation department, Government of Odisha as Assistant Engineer. He has worked in various places of Odisha handling different responsibilities in Government of Odisha during his career. He has also worked in Hydro-Electric project, Balimela and Upper Colab. He got retired in 1998. He has substantial experience in execution of projects and in the administration.
He is a spiritual person who loves meditation and worship and has been strong instrumental in constructing four number of temples for the public worship. He is long associated with Vikash in youth counselling, mentoring and providing guidance. He visits colleges, explains each scholarship scheme and eligibility criteria for the students, collects their applications and verifies their applications forms before approving them. Since 2001, he is associated with Vikash Educational Charitable Trust and presently he is working as Director, Scholarship Programs for the Trust. Apart from this he handles the Facilitator responsibility for the Foundation For Excellence (FFE) as well as State Coordinator for North South Foundation (NSF) scholarships. He is the backbone of Scholarship Programs of VECT.
He is fond of cricket and enjoys listening to the live cricket commentary. Also he is a loving, compassionate and dedicated worker who loves to support and nurture the needy and bright students.
Mr. Piyush Patnaik
Director-Civil Services Online Training Program
Mr. Patnaik is a retired officer of Indian Revenue Service (IRS) of Customs and Central Excise. He has served as Chief Commissioner of Central Excise and GST, Bhubaneswar and then served as Vice Chairman in Settlement Commission of Customs and Central Excise, Kolkata. He has experience in Indirect Tax Administration for over 35 years. During his long career he has held important posts in Indirect Taxes, such as Commissioner of Central Excise, Bhubaneswar, Additional Director General of Central Excise Intelligence at New Delhi and Mumbai.
Also he has worked as the Chief Commissioner of Service Tax at Mumbai. He has many appreciations for his sincere and efficient service in this sector. He has been awarded Presidential Award of Appreciation for 'Specially Distinguished Record of Service'.
Currently he is working as Director for Civil Services Online Training Program in Vikash Educational Charitable Trust. He is a loving, humble, kind-hearted sociable person. His hobbies include taking interest in Odia literature and culture. He is a regular writer of Odia poems those gets published in Odia magazines and daily newspapers.